Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Humanities/September 2020

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September 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2020 September 1

1. Reading-induced blindness in The Return of the Native
2. Do the names of TI calculator models follow any rule??

September 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2020 September 2

1. Releasing intellectual property "same time, same price" worldwide - does it reduce piracy?
2. Why did Beatrice Webb call Robert Perks an "unclean beast"?

September 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2020 September 3

1. Eat the Rich
2. First Native Hawaiian scientists
3. Are UNDP country codes still in use?
4. Navarone

September 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2020 September 4

1. Zaire in 1991-1992

September 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2020 September 5

1. Anyone have access to the Brill Encyclopedia of Islam?
2. Diversity Visa Lottery and Trump travel ban question
3. Nain Singh Rawat - which is the surname?

September 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2020 September 6

1. Indicting a sitting president

September 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2020 September 7

1. Criminal Justice Reform
2. Parsees under apartheidt
3. help finding Ng'wanamalundi
4. William Snook - 1883 article
5. Tombstone inscription

September 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2020 September 9

1. Is there an Ohio Death Record for Jennie S. Papa on Ancestry.com?
2. Spouse of head of state/government belonging to a different political party

September 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2020 September 10

1. International borders and social mobility
2. What is the name of this type of fallacy, almost like a strawman?

September 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2020 September 11

1. Who would be responsible to remove an unwilling Trump?

September 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2020 September 12

1. Swedish American State Bank, Chicago

September 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2020 September 14

1. Foreign translations before native language publications
2. Non-Protestants among Russian Germans

September 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2020 September 15

1. Elva Blacker press clippings
2. Do any religions say an entire solid object has to move to steal it?
3. Breaking glassware after a toast?

September 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2020 September 16

1. What part of Amos is most likely to be written in c. 750s BCE?

September 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2020 September 17

1. Blowing the Shofar on erev Rosh Hashanah
2. US Wars
3. A F Olden, Norwegian Peace Society

September 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2020 September 19

1. Senator voting on own confirmation to Scotus
2. Punic Exonyms
3. Who would be responsible to remove an unwilling Trump? (2)
4. Arthur Davis Memorial Lectures

September 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2020 September 21

1. Protestant branch of the House of Hohenzollern senior-most legitimate male agnate question
2. The Ginsbergs
3. OAN

September 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2020 September 22

1. Modern day nations part of Ottoman Empire
2. Central Powers monarchy abolition question
3. Role of a split Supreme Court in a contested Presidential election
4. Impressionists
5. A tie vote in the Israeli Cabinet

September 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2020 September 23

1. Lodz Ghetto liquidation question
2. Polish history question
3. Five tillahs of gold - bidding for a slave
4. Straddling Science and Religion

September 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2020 September 24

1. Well of Consort Zhen
2. The Great Escape: How did they catch the escapers?

September 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2020 September 25

1. Rome-Carthage peace treaty
2. 2000 Florida recount question
3. SCOTUS term limits
4. Peter Waldo, John Wycliffe, Jan Hus

September 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2020 September 26

1. Natural unification projects that were never actually completed?
2. 皇嗣, Huangsi and Kōshi

September 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2020 September 27

1. What was the first ship too big for Baltimore Inner Harbor?

September 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2020 September 28

1. Why are people risking their lives to get to the UK?
2. Wikiversity

September 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2020 September 30

1. Granada: Castille or Aragon
2. SCOTUS questions